Molasses bars can be types of cakes or cookies, depending on what ingredients are used. The primary ingredient in the all is the one that they are named after - molasses. The end result tends to be a chewy biscuit or cake.
Molasses, which is known as treacle in Britain (the black type, not to be confused with such as Golden Syrup), is a black, thick by-product from sugar beet and cane when they are refined into sugar. Although both sugar cane and sugar beet can be used to make molasses, the end products are not the same.
Molasses, as used in molasses bars, would normally be cane molasses. One variation of cane molasses is thrice-boiled resulting in what is called blackstrap molasses, which has much of the sugar content removed, and is used as a health supplement. Molasses used in cooking would not normally have gone this far.
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